25,000 IDLE
LABOUR DISPUTES IN U.S.A
NEW YORK, February 25.
It is estimated that 25,000 persons are idle throughout the nation as a result of labour disputes in more than 40 industrial undertakings. ■ Two Elgin (Illinois) watch-case plants are closed through a strike of 600 workers. s Boston strikers in 27 shoe plants won a demand for a 15 per cent, wage increase.
Santa Monica police read an ultimatum to the "sit-down" strikers in the Douglas Aircraft Corporation plant demanding that they vacate immediately, otherwise they threatened to use force.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1937, Page 9
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9025,000 IDLE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1937, Page 9
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